You'll remember Gillman from when he abruptly shut the doors on Republic and moved his operations to Iowa. However, his displaced workers refused to leave the premises until Gillman finally paid them two months' severance pay.
Turns out that, after moving to Iowa and taking ten truckloads of equipment (felony theft charges) from his Chicago plant with him, Gillman defaulted on the mortgage (fraud charges) to his new site and also screwed creditors out of payment (part of the money-laundering charges).
The guy would've been better off taking all that dough and relocating to Brazil back when the Republic closing story broke.
This is one story where the union was right all along, and consequently a union spokesman was quick to lump every other boss and business owner in America into the same class as Gillman:
"We feel like justice has finally come and we all hope that this is the beginning of more bosses being held accountable for their crimes against workers", said Melvin Maclin, vice-president of UE Local 1110 and a former Republic Windows and Doors worker.
Stand up and be counted, you scumbags. It's off with your heads!
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